Don Colacho’s Aphorisms

The particular creature we love is never God’s rival. What ends in apostasy is the worship of man, the cult of humanity. Escolios a un Texto...

Love uses the vocabulary of sex to write a text unintelligible to sex alone. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 433

The modern writer forgets that only the allusion to the gestures of love captures its essence. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p....

Decadence makes many things lovable. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 411

Our own cross burdens us less than the one we cannot help our beloved to carry. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 386

Nothing surpasses the beauty of loyal love, of the love that is not loyalty with love, but the loyalty of love itself. Escolios a un Texto I...

To love one’s neighbor is without doubt a commandment, but the gospel is the love that awaits us. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección ,...

The two wings of intelligence are erudition and love. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 247

Let us learn to accompany those we love in their errors, without becoming their accomplices. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 2...

To the happiness of those we love most we are allowed to contribute only a silent tenderness and an impotent compassion. Escolios a un Texto...

There is no truth which it is not licit to strangle if it would harm someone we love. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 231

Neither a revolutionary's eloquence, nor love letters, can be read by third parties without laughing. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Sel...

The happiness of the being we love is the only earthly good that satisfies us beyond measure. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. ...

Mutual disrespect quickly turns friendship or love between plebeian souls into a mere bilateral contract for rudeness. Escolios a un Texto I...

The most ardent passion does not deceive, if it recognizes the inadequacy of its object. Love is not blind when it loves madly, but when it ...

Every being lies there, shattered to pieces by its life, and there is no way for our love to pick up all the pieces. Escolios a un Texto Imp...

Clergymen and journalists have smeared the term “love” with so much sentimentality that even its echo stinks. Escolios a un Texto Implícito:...

Only because He commanded us to love men do the modern clergy resign themselves to believing in the divinity of Jesus; whereas, in truth, it...

None of us finds it difficult to love the neighbor who seems inferior to us. But to love someone we know is superior is another thing. Esco...

Indifference to art is betrayed by the pompous solemnity of the homage often rendered it. True love remains silent or mocks. Escolios a un ...